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High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtThe Allahabad High Court observed that the levy of entry tax on e-commerce sites is prima facie unconstitutional as the state legislature has no authority or competence to do so.Bombay High CourtA division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice GS Kulkarni of the Bombay High Court cautioned family courts to follow the law in letter and spirit, while hearing matters of. Allahabad High Court The Allahabad High Court observed that the levy of entry tax on e-commerce sites is prima facie unconstitutional as the state legislature has no authority or competence to do so. Bombay High Court has directed the state government to temporarily accommodate the Maharashtra National Law University by entering into an agreement with MTNL in order to get two floors in the MTNL building in Powai. Upholding a single bench judgment, which had set aside a Governor’s order commuting the sentence awarded to an accused, who absconded for 26 years, the division bench of the High Court observed that executive clemency cannot be extended to a citizen who managed to scoff the process of cour A single bench of Justice AM Shaffique of the High Court held the constitutional validity of of late fee charged under section 234 E of Income Tax Act The High Court held that a single judge, while referring a case to division bench, could only refer the entire case and he is not empowered to refer only some questions of law involved in that case and retain the rest.

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